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Tutorials

Start here if you are new. A tutorial walks you through a complete journey end to end, with every step given. You do not need to know what you want yet — that is what separates these from the How-to guides, which assume you have a specific task in mind.

Start with this one

  • The First 5 Minutes — from nothing to a running Liferay, with Client Extensions attached and logs streaming. If you only read one page, read this one.

Then, depending on what you are building

  • Local Development with Liferay Workspaces — build, deploy and hot-reload your own Client Extensions, OSGi modules and themes against a local stack.
  • Liferay Cloud PaaS to Local — pull a Cloud environment down to your machine. Written around the demo-rescue case, when a PaaS environment is unstable and waiting for support is not an option.

Not here

  • Installing LDM, or fixing a broken setup — see Installation & Setup under How-to guides. It covers prerequisites, per-OS SSL tooling, Docker permissions, shell completion and troubleshooting. It is a reference to reach into, not a tutorial to read.

Last Updated: 2026-10-16 | Last Reviewed: 2026-10-16